1. Doctrine of the Bible: Introduction September 27, 2009

2. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “The Word of God has never wanted enemies to oppose, and, if possible, to extirpate it. They have given out a law concerning Scripture, as Pharaoh did the midwives, concerning the Hebrew women’s children, to strangle it in the birth; but God has preserved this blessed Book inviolable to this day. The devil and his agents have been blowing at Scripture light, but could never blow it out; a clear sign that it was lighted from heaven.” -Thomas Watson

3. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant…was condemned to death by the decree of the king.” (1 Maccabees 1:56-57) Antiochus IV

4. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE Diocletian Constantine

5. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE Jerome

6. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “that Pestilent wretch, John Wycliffe, the son of the old Serpent, the forerunner of Antichrist, who has completed his iniquity by inventing a new translation of the Scriptures.” - Archbishop Arundel

7. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes!” - William Tyndale

8. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “Fifty years from now the world will hear no more of the Bible.” - Voltaire

9. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “When I get through there will not be five Bibles left in America.” - Thomas Paine

10. OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE “The more they pound and the more they shout, the more they wear their hammers out!” - cry of the Huguenots

11. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY LIFE DOCTRINE SCRIPTURE

12. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY To give you a greater confidence in your Bible To give you a greater love for your Bible

13. BIBLIOLOGY Bible (byblos) + -ology

14. PRESUPPOSITIONS There is one Triune God who has chosen to reveal Himself to man. God has given us the Bible which is perfect, without error, and complete. All men are sinners. God is the one who reveals the truth, through His word, by the Holy Spirit, to those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ.

15. WHY STUDY THE BIBLE? Resistance to temptation: I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. -Ps 119:11 Conviction of sin: For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.-Heb 4:12 Enduring truth: The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.-Isa 40:8

16. WHY STUDY THE BIBLE? Effective purpose: For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. -Isa 55:10-11

17. WHY STUDY THE BIBLE? Firm foundation: Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. - Matt 7:24-27

18. WHY STUDY THE BIBLE? God’s wisdom for living: And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. - 1 Thess 2:13

19. SCHEDULE 09/27 Introduction 10/04 How did we get our Bible? 10/11 How do we know we have the true Bible? (Part 1) 10/18 How do we know we have the true Bible? (Part 2) 10/25 Why are there so many different translations? 11/01 How do we know the Bible is true? (Part 1) 11/08 How do we know the Bible is true? (Part 2) 11/15 The testimony of Scripture to itself (Part 1) 11/22 The testimony of Scripture to itself (Part 2) 11/29 Thanksgiving 12/06 The testimony of the early church 12/13 The testimony of extrabiblical sources 12/20 The testimony of changed lives 12/27 Christmas